Meet Hemispheric: The Israeli AI startup aiming to revolutionize brain diagnostics
Israeli startup Hemispheric is developing an AI-driven platform to diagnose neurological and psychiatric conditions by analyzing brain activity data. The company has built a massive database of brain signals to train its models, aiming to provide objective measurements for personalized medical treatments.
Why it matters
Advancements in AI-based brain diagnostics could significantly improve the accuracy and speed of identifying complex mental health and neurological disorders.
The sleek, three-story headquarters of Hemispheric in central Tel Aviv has two entrances. The smaller one is for employees. The larger, more spacious entrance is for test subjects. That is no coincidence: The people who come here generate the lifeblood of any artificial intelligence company — its database, its data. How does it work? Young and old, men and women, are fitted with a sensor-equipped cap worn on the head. They are then led into a quiet room, where for about an hour they are asked to perform certain tasks in front of a computer screen, with the results recorded immediately on the company’s servers. “In recent years,” says Gidi Littwin, 44, Hemispheric’s chief technology officer and co-founder, “one of our main focuses has been building one of the world’s largest brain databases.
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